The International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL) is an academic conference that focuses on research in Austroasiatic languages and linguistics.

History The first ICAAL conference was held at the University of Hawaiʻi in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States on the first week of January in 1973. After 1979, conferences were no longer held for over 25 years as much of Southeast Asia was inaccessible to Western researchers during many of those years.

On August 30, 2001, in Périgueux, France, interest in reviving ICAAL was rekindled when Gérard Diffloth, Michel Ferlus, and George van Driem met to discuss the history and potential future of ICAAL. They then went on to host the ICAAL 3 Pilot Meeting in June 2006 at Siem Reap, Cambodia, which was funded by the Dutch Research Council and the École française d'Extrême-Orient. The ICAAL 3 academic conference was held at the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute in Pune, India in November 2007, and conferences have since been held biannually. In 2011, ICAAL 5 was scheduled to be held from November 9–11, 2011, at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, but the conference was cancelled due to the 2011 Thailand floods. ICAAL 5 was thus postponed to 2013 and held at the Australian National University.

List of meetings A full list of meetings, including full conferences, workshops, and other meetings, is as follows.

Year Event Host City Country Dates Notes 1973 ICAAL 1 University of Hawaiʻi Honolulu January (first week) 1978 ICAAL 2 Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysore December Second International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (SICAL). 1979 Symposium on Austroasiatic Linguistics International People's College Helsingør October 24–26 Papers from the Helsingør symposium on Austroasiatic linguistics and literature. 2006 ICAAL Pilot Meeting École Française d'Extrême-Orient Siem Reap June 28–29 2007 ICAAL 3 Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute Pune November 26–28 Nagaraja, K.S., and Kashyap Mankodi. 2007. Austroasiatic linguistics: proceedings of Third International Conference of Austroasiatic Linguistics, November 26–28, 2007. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. 2009 ICAAL 4 Mahidol University Bangkok October 29–30 2013 ICAAL 5 Australian National University Canberra September postponed from 2011 2015 ICAAL 6 Royal Academy of Cambodia and Center for Khmer Studies Siem Reap July 29–31 2016 Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective workshop Chiang Mai University Chiang Mai September 5–7 2017 ICAAL 7 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Kiel September 29 – October 1 2019 ICAAL 8 Chiang Mai University Chiang Mai August 29–31 2021 ICAAL 9 Lund University Lund November 18–19 held online 2022 ICAAL 10 Living Tongues Institute Salem, Oregon November 30–December 2 held online 2023 ICAAL 11 Chiang Mai University Chiang Mai October 26–27 held online 2024 ICAAL 12 Payap University Chiang Mai October 23–25 hybrid (in-person and online) 2025 ICAAL 13 – – – October 29–31 held online 2026 ICAAL 14 Nguyen Tat Thanh University Ho Chi Minh City November 27–29

Proceedings Conference proceedings:

Second International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (SICAL). (Archived mss) Papers from the Helsingør symposium on Austroasiatic linguistics and literature. (Archived mss) Nagaraja, K.S., and Kashyap Mankodi. 2007. Austroasiatic linguistics: proceedings of Third International Conference of Austroasiatic Linguistics, November 26–28, 2007. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.

See also List of linguistics conferences International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics

References

External links (icaal.net) Archives of ICAAL 3–6 (icaal.org)